The Price is Right - UKGameshows The Price is Right Bobby Bragg (1989: early shows) Allan Sherwin (Sky version from late 1989) Peter Dickson (1995-2001, 2005, 2006-7) Mike Hurley (2006-7) Suzie Marlowe (Sky version from 1989) Tracie Williams (Sky version from 1989) Katrina Maltby (Sky version from 1989) Julie Broster (Sky version from 1989) Peitra Caston (Sky version from 1989) Kimberley Cowell (1995-2001) Natalie Pike (2006-7, Beauty and the Geek contestant) Male models: Ray Tizzard (as Raynard) (2006-7) Broadcast Central in association with Mark Goodson Productions and Talbot Television for ITV, 24 March 1984 to 8 April 1988 (100 episodes in 5 series) The New Price is Right: Talbot Telegame and Mark Goodson

 Productions for Sky One, 4 September 1989 to 1994?

Bruce's Price is Right: Yorkshire Television and Talbot Television in association with Mark Goodson Productions for ITV, 4 September 1995 to 1 January 1996 and 27 December 1996 (17 episodes in 1 series) Yorkshire Television and Fremantle (UK) Productions for ITV, 2 September 1996 to 15 January 1999 (51 episodes in 3 series) Yorkshire Television and Grundy for ITV, 10 September 1999 to 16 December 2001 (48 episodes in 3 series + 3 unaired) Granada and Thames for ITV1, 17 September 2005 ( Gameshow Marathon one-off) TalkbackThames for ITV1, 8 May 2006 to 12 January 2007 (124 episodes in 1 series) ITV Productions and TalkbackThames for ITV1, 7 April 2007 ( Gameshow Marathon one-off) Synopsis It's often stated as Britain's Biggest Game Show. In what way it was the biggest is unclear. Is it the one with the biggest prizes?

No. Biggest audience? No. Biggest set? No. But for sheer cheek and pluck, you'd have to argue that this American classic does have a lot of heart and a big-hearted "anyone can play" attitude. Contestants Row Contestants are plucked (seemingly) at random from the audience and take their places in Contestants Row, where they're each invited to guess the price of an object. The one who guesses the nearest goes on to play a pricing game - different every time, but each involves guessing the prices of various objects in some way (actually and rather curiously, there were games in the Crowther run that didn't involve having to know prices at all, such as the luck and memory game Matchmaker). Win or lose, the contestant who played goes onto the next round. Another contestant comes down from the audience to fill the gap and they guess another price, with the nearest going through again. And so on six times (in the original version) or three times (on the revived 30-minute versions). Contestants who made it to Contestants Row in the Crowther years automatically won "an Olympic-style gold medal" and later, a cuddly teddy bear named William.

Contestants Row as seen in 1995 In the original Crowther version, the final six players went to the Supermarket and had to pick items adding up to a particular total, and spin a numbered wheel in the hope of getting 100, with the two nearest going through to the final. If someone managed to get 100 exactly they'd win a bonus prize, such as £1000 in the Forsyth version (although in Warman's episodes they'd need to repeat the feat). The wheel was later removed from the Crowther episodes after the IBA complained about the lack of skill. Instead, all six took part in a quiz on how much things cost in the past (called Check the Difference), with those furthest away eliminated each time. Spinning the wheel The two surviving contestants each got the Showcase - basically, Big Stack O'Prizes - which they had to calculate the value of, and the one who was nearest won it all. In the nineties version, the wheel was back and only one contestant went through, where they would have to estimate the value of the showcase, and if they got within a specified range they'd win it.

In the modern Brucie version, the player got to randomly pick a value between £1000 to £5000 by pressing a button to stop a flashing light on the Range Finder. If they could get their guess to be within that amount of the actual amount, without going over, then they won the whole showcase which was usually between £15-25,000. In these cash-strapped times, Pasquale's version has ranges from £500 to £4000 and the prizes are a step down from the primetime Bruce era. Veteran game show contestant the Reverend David Smith gives Bruce his showcase price Prize time So, what of the prizes? There were Innovations-style gadgets or horrible carriage clocks given away in the first round to whoever got the price right (those who bid about fifty quid in this round clearly didn't want to win them), then in each of the games there'd be loads of household appliances and sometimes even cars and holidays - in some you won a selection of them, in some you won everything on display.

Then the showcase at the end would have loads more prizes, normally either the entire contents of a room or a car, holiday and loads of audio-visual stuff. At a time when other quizzes were still giving away sets of luggage, this was a massive deal. Of course, contestants were simply plucked out of the audience and invited to Come on Down, so you sometimes got a right dozy selection of people there. The producers would bus in whole factories, offices, universities or social clubs en masse, the idea being that the contestants would all have hundreds of supporters behind them, hollering the answers at the top of their voices. In the original version, the contestants got a Price Is Right medal to wear throughout the show, just to congratulate them on successfully negotiating the stairs. The fact the contestants never knew they were going to be on meant that occasionally you'd get people who were completely shocked and hardly said a word throughout the programme. At least it meant the interviews weren't very long. Glitzy "Oooh, it's all American isn't it?" With these words, my parents welcomed The Price is Right to Britain.

It may seem tame now, but when the show started, nobody had seen anything like it before, such was its brashness and razzle-dazzle. Indeed, they even had to tone it down halfway through the run because it was so incredibly vulgar and over-the-top. Most of this is undoubtedly thanks to original producer William G Stewart, who used to bound through the audience at the start of a show, wearing a pink jumpsuit and playing Land Of Hope And Glory at full blast, just to get the audience wound up. The fact he gave them all party hats and, best of all, Central flags to wave throughout meant that they were excited, even if the viewers weren't. There was also a truly mental vaudeville-esque theme tune which ratcheted up the excitement another notch. The other bit you watched The Price Is Right for was the games, of which there were a massive amount. If some of them were a bit dull - "do you want to swap these prices over or not?" was a low point - others were fantastic.

The game that scared us most when we were younger was Cliffhanger, where for every pound the contestant was out in their guess, a little man would climb a mountain, yodelling all the way, until falling to his death off the top after 25 steps - one step for each £1 you were out on three different pricing items. Games from the original Crowther version The most fun ones were the ones that involved a little bit more than just pricing, such as Hole in One where to win the big prize the player had to putt a golf ball into the hole but for every item he/she priced correctly the player could putt from closer. Every week this came up there was always a bet with one of the scantily dressed assistants that ol' Brucie wouldn't be able to putt it in, which he never usually did. Also hilariously, the giant cardboard sign had a handle that changed to 'Hole in Two' so that if the player lost they could have another shot. Hole in One in progress And then there was Plinko where players dropped discs into holes in the hope that they'd fall into a cash pocket, with more discs going to people who'd guessed prices correctly.

There is a gamble at the end where you can choose to risk your prize money (sadly, typically only a few hundred quid) for a 50/50 shot at a larger prize (this was later changed to include the additional chance to double your money). It was also a piece of proverbial to join in with the games at home, and indeed in our attic there are still toys with price labels on from when we played our own versions of Supermarket. Hosts with the most Both of the first two hosts worked well - Les had some cracking old-school mannerisms, and at the end of each round he'd tell the contestant to "Go and have a chat with Cindy/Lyndsey/Debbie/etc". Every single time. Brucie, of course, was Brucie and so was always great with the dozy contestants and handling the prop-based games like Plinko. Our favourite thing ever about the show, though, is the way Look-In announced that there would be two more hostesses in one series, to wit "Busy Les will now be assisted by six hostesses rather than four". We just love that "Busy Les". You're working him to the bone, Bill!

All the ladies loved Les But they loved Brucie more. Sometimes, if you weren't in the mood for it, The Price Is Right could come across as, well, irritating. This certainly wasn't a show to watch if you had a headache, such was the constant shouting and screaming. It also wasn't the most cerebral of quizzes, with some contestants walking away with stacks of prizes purely through sheer luck. At the time, critics complained about the air of money-grabbing about the show, with losing contestants just slinking off or being forced to stand there like lemons, and the public coming a very poor second to the games and the prizes. All that really mattered was that they did the games and there were some prizes, and tough tit if the prizes were hugely inappropriate. You sort of felt that if there was only one contestant playing all the games, they wouldn't really notice. Conversely, though, when they dropped Supermarket, the replacement game - "A Mini Mayfair costs £4000, how much did it cost in 1966?" - was actually pretty dull and sedate.

Note also the hopeless attempts at making the set look glitzy in the Les version - ie, bunging a few palm trees around the place. The Brucie version was a bit disappointing because you always felt Brucie could do better than shepherding this sort of thing. For some reason, the members of the audience were always convinced they knew exactly what the price of everything was, so they'd be shouting and making hand signals throughout - even when the options were something like £2501 and £2502, they'd still be hollering at the contestants and groaning when they chose the 'wrong' one. You sort of felt that if they weren't careful, some of the audience would storm the stage and do the games themselves as they didn't think the contestants could be trusted. Sometimes they were right to think that, though - note all the instances in Contestants Row where one wouldn't be listening and so would bid a quid below what someone else had (you can't go over, of course, so they had no chance) or bid insultingly low - where Brucie would always go "Fifty quid!?!" in response.

On the Les incarnation, one curious bit was that they'd take the value of the prizes won by the most successful contestant before the final, and then give that amount in cash to 'our nominated charity' - clearly a William G idea to stop people complaining it was soulless. Channel hopping The series began on Saturday nights in 1984 and, much to the critics' chagrin, was an enormous hit, instantly making it to number one in the charts with some sixteen million viewers a week. It stayed on Saturday nights for a number of years, and viewing figures were steady throughout, as was the criticism levelled at it, with everyone pointing out that this was the most vulgar, most inane show ever produced and the obvious step towards mass dumbing down. This was never the case, of course, and after a move to Fridays for a bit (the "Busy Les" period), ITV decided to axe it in 1988, presumably figuring that the public could only watch it for so long before becoming thoroughly sick of the whole thing. That said, Les later said that he only knew it had been axed when he read it in the paper, as ITV had neglected to tell him.

In 1989, Talbot Telegame produced a new version of the show, for the embryonic Sky One, using the facilities and services of Central TV. However this was hardly noticed as a) it was on Sky One, and b) Central News' Bob Warman was not really a very inspiring figure as host. The prizes, however, were more expensive than those during the Les period, due to the more relaxed regulation of satellite channels. Bob Warman with contestant in the Talbot Telegame production for Sky One. Brucie convinced Yorkshire to pick up the rights in 1995, and it was back on ITV, though originally opposite EastEnders and, if anything, even more vulgar and gaudy than the original version (unsurprisingly, it had the same producers as Supermarket Sweep). It did well enough for ITV for the next few years, but often it would turn up in all sorts of weird slots, with odd ones showing up months, or even years, after the series they were actually part of.

Eventually endless Emmerdale meant there was no room for quizzes on the channel anymore, so they bunged it out on Saturday teatimes in the middle of summer, much to Brucie's disappointment. They kept it going for a bit, but Brucie's falling out with ITV meant it abruptly finished. Brucie and his prize touching crew. By turns, the Joe Pasquale version is both refreshingly different and slightly annoying. Joe himself is a master at interacting with the contestants, and his grip of the games is better than the cue card-assisted Brucie in the first series. However, he garbles a little too much over the rules for our liking. For every positive there is a negative. For each new game (of which there are many), the sound effects just don't sound right. For each new bit of comedy business with stooges, the new models wave their hands around the prizes just a bit too much. For each new clever game set, there's direction problems with late shots and the vision mixer's love of Joe's back rather than his face. Yes, it's The Price is Right but many of the minor details are a bit rough and ready.

The Pasquale version was axed in January 2007 due to ratings averaging 800,000 viewers. Summing up Sometimes, you want to switch your brain off and enjoy a bit of inanity, and that's when The Price Is Right really came into its own. Yeah, so it was vulgar, and noisy, and soulless, but on a Saturday night you couldn't really ask for more. They'd clearly pumped loads of money into it, and at a time when many other game shows were giving away rubbish, here was a series that gave away decent prizes, and loads of them. It only really worked in small doses, though, and five years was probably about right first time round. It's certainly not our favourite of Brucie's shows, if only because the presenter couldn't really put a lot of their personality into it, and the prizes and audience tended to overshadow anything that actually happened on the show. It wasn't, as some suggested, the end of television, but neither was The Price Is Right a particular high point in the medium's history.

Catchphrases (Brucie): "We have a space in Contestants' Row - who's it going to be, Peter?" "Take a look... at this..." "The actual retail price is..." "Go and have a chat with [Cindy]" (During the Supermarket game): "Fifteen seconds - not a long time". (During the Showcase Showdown): "...And whichever contestant is furthest away from the actual price, either above or below, sits down and is eliminated. In the event of tied losing answers, both contestants are eliminated - and in the event of this happening when there are only three of you left, we will play a tie-breaker. At all events, the two contestants who remain standing at the end of the game will go into the Showcase Final". "It's Saturday Night! So come on down! The Price is Right" "And here he is - Leslie Crowther!" "The Time is Right. The Place is Right. So come on down. The Price is Right!" (Crowther): "Ladies and gentlemen - I hope you'll be able to join us next week, when once again I shall be saying 'Come on down - The Price Is Right'!" "Here we go.

It's Britain's biggest game show! Bruce's Price is Right!" Brucie, just before the break: "We'll see you later on for the Showcase Showdown - and (to the viewers) that goes for you too!" "...And I hope you're going to play along at home!" "Flash the cash!" "As ever, over is out..." "Remember - you can be up to (however much) under, but not one penny over..." "What is the price of your showcase?" "Remember, no matter what happens, Bruce's price is always right - good night!" Audience: "Plin-ko! Plin-ko! Plin-ko!" "....And all this could be yours tonight, if the price is right!" "There'd be no show without Joe... Joe Pasquale!" Inventor Based on the classic US format of the same name. Trivia The original producer was William G. Stewart , now best known as the presenter of Fifteen-to-One . Apparently, he used to get the crowd excited by marching in to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory at full volume, and leapt around the audience wearing his trademark lurid pink tracksuit.

We've seen the footage of this, and it's scary. Producer William G. Stewart (left) and presenter Leslie Crowther (second from right) with contestants Michael Crawford and Matthew Kelly were considered as hosts. Central TV wanted a fresher face such as Joe Brown, who Stewart agreed to make a pilot with on the condition that he could also make one with Leslie Crowther. On the very first TPiR, a woman called Mary Brown was invited to "come on down" but she refused. Producer William G. Stewart wanted to start the new series with a rhyme "Mary Brown, Come on Down!" but clearly it didn't go to plan! In the Crowther era, the winner actually got their name in the end credits. Which was nice. Following Leslie Crowther 's death in 1996, William G. Stewart revealed that Crowther had initially been reluctant to shout 'Come on down!' on the show and had said that he'd need to speak to his wife, Jean, first, in case she didn't approve.

Somewhat nonplussed, William G said, "But I'm your producer - she's only your wife", to which Crowther immediately responded, "No - she's my wife - you're only my producer!" Fortunately, Jean did eventually approve and Crowther soon made the catchphrase his own. When Crowther died in 1996, the next Bruce's Price is Right broadcast was preceded with an announcer saying "Bruce Forsyth would like tonight's programme to be dedicated to the memory of Leslie Crowther". After seeing the first few episodes, the IBA stepped in to block the Giant Wheel eliminator because they believed it was a pure gamble with no skill involved. This action coincided with an electricians' strike at Central's studios, which took the programme off the air for a month. During the hiatus, and after much head scratching, the producers came up with a game where they had to name the price of an expensive item. The contestant with the answer furthest away from the correct price was eliminated, until two were left for the final. In rehearsals, however, one of the extras pointed out that the final contestant in the row only has to name a price between two he's already heard and he'll always make the final.

Therefore, they changed it so that the contestants wrote down the figures first. During at least two of the Crowther-shows, contestants won inappropriate prizes. One lady won a lawnmower and a set of garden furniture, among other things - and she didn't even have a garden! Crowther's response was, "Well, we'll have to fix you up with one". (Quite how they'd have done that is unclear). On another occasion, a contestant won a car as part of her showcase and then announced that she couldn't drive. Fortunately, just as Crowther was starting to suggest that they might arrange some driving lessons for her, she added, "But my husband can" - no doubt much to the relief of both Crowther and the crew! On another memorable occasion, a contestant named Maggie made it past Contestants' Row and Crowther soon started calling her 'Giggly Maggie' (his words, not ours - but it's true that she did giggle a fair bit). Her game was 'Secret X', in which she had to price up to three items in order to win a maximum of two X's to place on the board to make a line of three.

She managed to price the two items correctly and gain her requisite two X's as well as win the items concerned, but then she demanded to know why she wasn't playing for the third small prize - a swan-design teapot. Crowther explained that she didn't have to play for said teapot, because she'd already priced enough items correctly, but Maggie was having none of it, as she was obviously very taken with the teapot. Crowther exclaimed in mock-despair, "I don't know - she's got all these lovely prizes and now she's on about 'the lickle teapot'" (again, his turn of phrase, not ours). Guess what? They eventually let her keep the teapot. Bruce once confided to one of the prize researchers that he hadn't heard of one of the Supermarket Game ingredients - creme fraiche - and worried whether the contestants would have done either. In terms of studios, the show moved around quite a bit. After a year or two, the Crowther version moved over from Central's Birmingham HQ to their Nottingham complex. It was moved back to Brum for the Warman era.

Naturally, Brucie's YTV version came to you from Leeds but the Pasquale revival was recorded at Granada's Manchester site, also known as 3SixtyMedia. As a rather sad coda to the Pasquale era, studio director Phil Chilvers died mid-way through the production of the series. He was found dead in his hotel room, and the crew and audience of 400 waiting in the studio were sent home. Merchandise A board game of the Leslie Crowther version was made. A Bruce's Price is Right board game was made. Web links The Price Is Right (UK game show) | The Price Is Right Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Price Is Right Wiki The Price Is Right (UK game show) 507pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. The Price Is Right in the UK was hosted by Leslie Crowther , Bob Warman , Bruce Forsyth , and Joe Pasquale .

It ran from 24 March 1984 to 12 January 2007. Contents Edit Crowther Era Logo Leslie Crowther hosted the original UK version, having beaten Joe Brown to the role of host after both recorded pilot episodes. The Crowther version is popular with fans of the show for its near-campiness, glamour, and endearing presenting skills of its host, not for its cheaper prizes (which were forced on it by the Independent Broadcasting Authority's prize limits). Its format was nearly identical to that of CBS's daytime show in the United States. It initially used the Big Wheel to decide who would go through to the Showcase, but the IBA forced Central to abandon this because of the lack of skill involved. In fact, the show had to go off air for a while during its first season on the IBA's instructions (the regulator was also unhappy that prize values had exceeded its limits), so that the format could be adapted to fit into a much more tightly-regulated UK broadcasting environment.

After this ruling was made, the show replaced the Big Wheel rounds with a game called " Supermarket ", in which each of the three people would select up to four of six presented grocery products; the one whose total was closest to £20, above or below, advanced to the Showcase Final. Series two saw the Big Wheel return for a spin-off to see who would have the option of bidding or passing on the first showcase; each contestant had to take two spins. If a person scored 100, £400 would be donated to charity on their behalf, and Leslie would ask the person a consumer-related question to win £100 for him/herself. The winner was the contestant who came closer to 100 in either direction. The Crowther version later used a game called " the Showcase Questions ", where all six on-stage contestants played a series of estimated-guess questions and the person farthest away from the actual prize was eliminated. This was done until the last two contestants were left, and they then advanced to the Showcase Final. The showcase was played largely the same way as on the American version.

In the first season, the winner wouldn't win the largest prize in their showcase if their winning guess was not within 10% of the showcase total. Pricing Games Edit Warman Era Logo The second version hosted by Bob Warman is considered to be a precursor to the third version hosted by Bruce Forsyth, as it was a half-hour and used the Showcase range game. Having premiered shortly after Leslie Crowther's version went off the air, it retained many elements from the set and props, but was somewhat "Americanized". The show was hence called "The New Price is Right" and had a red, yellow, and green pound sign. The Warman version also had slightly better and more expensive prizes than the Crowther version due to the program's shorter length, in-show sponsorship, and lighter regulation of satellite television channels. The show also had a light border in the opening (mimicking the American version), used U.S. music (including the opening theme and the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour theme), and had more colour on the set.

The Showcase round was played considerably differently: After three games and a single Showcase Showdown at the Big Wheel (in which spinning 100 earned a bonus spin worth a bonus prize), the Showdown winner selected a range at random from £250 to £1,000; if the bid was within the selected range of the price of the presented showcase without going over, they won the Showcase. The Warman era was very short-lived, partly due to Sky TV being relatively new and having very few subscribers at the time; only 30 episodes were produced, airing over a period in 1989. Despite this, its format and version of the Showcase since carried over to many other European versions of the show, including Bruce's Price Is Right. Pricing Games Bruce's Price is Right Bruce's Range Board When it started in the mid-1990s, Bruce's Price is Right was one of the first shows to fully take advantage of the Independent Television Commission's lifting of the prize limits and the general deregulation of the UK broadcasting environment.

The Showcase Showdown was played on the Big Wheel (objections to lack of skill no longer being a factor), with the highest-scoring contestant on one spin or a combination of two spins going through to the Showcase, and any contestant who scored 100 on one spin or a combination of two spins would win £1,000. The ranges for the Showcase in this version went from £1,000 to £5,000. Although it was only in a half-hour format with three pricing games per show (the Crowther show had been an hour long with six games) it still gave away more valuable prizes each week than the previous ITV version had done (for example, it was possible for a contestant to win two cars, one in a pricing game and one in the showcase, which would have been utterly unthinkable on British TV in the 1980s). Cars offered were usually superminis, from makers like Daihatsu and Daewoo, or models like a Ford Ka or Mazda Demio, but small sports cars like a Hyundai Accent or Vauxhall Tigra were offered on occasion. On the Forsyth version, the game Plinko was played to very different rules from the U.S.

version; considerably less money could be won, and contestants could risk their cash winnings on one final Plinko chip in hopes of adding a car or other large prize to their winnings (the cash spaces on the board were replaced with alternating "WIN" and "LOSE" slots). Many European versions of the show that debuted after the Forsyth version based their games and sound cues on that show. The main theme, an update of the U.S. theme, and the "come on down" music are from the short-lived 1994 U.S. syndicated version . Bruce would start some of these shows also with his trademark line of "Nice to see you, to see you...NICE!" (where the audience yells the word "nice" at the end).

Pricing Games Introduced Series 1 (1995) Cliffhanger (" Cliff Hangers " in the U.S.; contestants were told that the prices increased as the game progressed) Clock Game (rules modified after Series 1 so that all prizes ended in either '0' or '5') Danger Price (contestant could not win the prize that cost the danger price) Double Price Tags (" Double Prices " in the U.S.) Edit Joe Pasquale Era Talkback Thames debuted a revival on ITV on 8 May 2006, this time with former "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" winner Joe Pasquale as host. It followed the same gameplay format as Bob Warman and Bruce Forsyth's versions, with Showcase ranges going from £500 to £3000, and the Showcase Showdown adapted the rules from the Warman version, with a car at stake; later on, the £1000 bonus was reinstated. It had a very "panto" feel to it, and it relies on nostalgia of the Crowther version, which was known for its cheap prizes because of the regulations of the time.

Joe's tour manager, Ray Tizzard, made appearances as his "twin" in various pricing games. The show expanded to an hour from 3 July 2006. This involved three games being played, a Showcase Showdown, three more games, another Showcase Showdown, and then the winners from both showdowns take part in the 'Pasquale Finale', a spin-off on the wheel to see who will go through to the Showcase. During this format, spinning 100 in one or two spins won £1000; the player then spins for the car. In addition, prior to this, the maximum range in the Showcase increased to £4000, as the budget increased. After the first three games and Showcase Showdown, Contestants' Row was cleared of people, and a new set of four contestants was called down. In all versions of the programme, a perfect bid in Contestants' Row resulted in a £100 bonus in either cash or, in the Warman version, gift certificates. Pricing Games TV ARK | Gameshows M-R Masterteam 1987 Masterteam was a general knowledge quiz presented by Angela Rippon.

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Pokerface Bluffing your opponents quiz with Ant and Dec. Pop Idol Pop Quiz 1983 Once upon a time, a mulleted Radio One DJ called Mike Reid hosted this ratings winning quiz show which regularly saw pop stars answering music related questions.ï¿½ Regularly attracting 10 million viewers, the penultimate episode in 1984 saw Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet battle it out to be crowned kings of the pop quiz. Popstar to Operastar The title says it all really. The Price Is Right The first big money gameshow on ITV, hosted by Leslie Crowther. The Price Is Right The Price is Right 2006 Household favourite Joe Pasquale takes over the reins from Bruce Forsyth on "Britains Brightest Gameshow".ï¿½ All the favourite games of old such as "Plinko" are there, as well as some new ones.ï¿½ The voice overs were provided by Mike Hurley and more recently Peter Dixon.

Punch Lines QI 2007 Stephen Fry is your host for this comedy panel show.ï¿½ Regular team member Alan Davies is joined by a plethora of other stars, such as Jo Brand, Bill Bailey and even Jeremy Clarkson. An extended version of the show was made called QI XL. A Question Of Genuis Kirsty Wark hosts the gameshow which is the ultimate test of knowledge, judgement and nerve. A Question of Sport A Question Of Sport with a set of titles from 1987. A Question Of Sport 1996 Resplendant in new animated titles, David Coleman hosts this sporting knowledged based quiz, with cricketer Ian Botham and rugby star Bill Beaumont as team captains. ï¿½ A Question of Sport 2000 A fresh set of opening titles, a dancier theme tune as well as new team captains and a new host!ï¿½ Sue Barker ventures forth as quiz mistress and John Parrot and Ally McCoist take over as team captains in this Manchester filmed series.

A Question of Sport 2003 Another set of new titles, a slight tweek of the theme and a new team captain in the shape of Frankie Dettori heralds the new series of Question Of Sport. Gameshows - R Robot Wars 2000 Robot Wars was the ultimate challenge show for blokes and was hosted by Craig Charles with excitable commentary by Jonathan Pearce. The show featured battles between vehicles - robots - designed by members of the public and built especially for the programme. Runway Runway 1988 A small clip of Richard and Judy telling us whats coming up on This Morning leads us seamlessly (?) into this Richard Madeley driven quiz show.ï¿½ An exotic holiday was on offer to the lucky winner, but the show didnt last more than a few series.ï¿½ Also, in the last series, audience numbers were so low, that dummys with wigs on were placed in the studio audience and the filmed from the back!ï¿½ This page has been written and presented by Steve Hackett. The information presented on this page has been researched by me on behalf of TV ARK and is offered in good faith, correct to the best of my knowledge.

If any factual errors have appeared here inadvertently, then I would be delighted to hear from anyone wishing to offer corrections. All opinions expressed are my own and no offence is intended. Should they be a cause of concern or distress to any readers, please inform me immediately so that I can remove or amend them accordingly. Bob Stewart: Creator of the television game show 'The Price is Right' | The Independent Bob Stewart: Creator of the television game show 'The Price is Right' Sunday 3 June 2012 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The television producer Bob Stewart came up with the idea for the game show The Price is Right after hearing people standing in front of a Manhattan department store window discussing how much a piece of furniture might cost. The format was simple: in auction style, four contestants guessed the retail value of the prizes on offer and the one who was closest, without exceeding the correct figure, was the winner. The programme, hosted by Bill Cullen, was launched in the US in 1956 and quickly became the most popular game show in the country.

The Price is Right, devised by Stewart for his employer, Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, continues to run in its homeland today and the format has been sold worldwide. The programme was hosted in Britain by Leslie Crowther, Bob Warman, Bruce Forsyth and Joe Pasquale between 1984 and 2007. Stewart started his own production company in 1964 and one of his later creations The $10,000 Pyramid – featuring two pairs of contestants, each teaming a celebrity with a member of the public – became another global success. Six screens were organised in a pyramid shape, each with a word indicating a category, and the celebrity gave clues to his partner for seven items in that category. The programme, renamed half a dozen times in the US to reflect increases in prize money – up to $100,000 – ran there from 1973 until 2004.

Screened in Britain as The Pyramid Game, hosted by Steve Jones, it was featured first in Bruce Forsyth's Big Night (1978) and The Steve Jones Games Show (1979), before being broadcast in its own right between 1981 and 1990. It was later revived for the digital channel Challenge in 2007, presented by Donny Osmond. Stewart was born Isidore Steinberg in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants. He served in the Air Force during the Second World War, then took a radio-writing course, before landing a job at a New York radio station. Encountering anti-Semitism from potential employers, he changed his name to Robert Stewart in 1950 and was soon working in television for various New York channels. In 1956, he moved to Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Just weeks after The Price is Right was launched, another of Stewart's game-show creations, To Tell the Truth, was born.

Another hardy screen perennial, running in the US until 2002, it featured three protagonists claiming to have a secret they wanted to reveal, with a panel of celebrities trying todetermine which one was telling the truth. It was recreated in various guises around the world – in Britain as Tell the Truth, first from 1957 to 1959, then from 1983 to 1990. A further hit for Stewart in his home country was Password, starting in 1961, with two pairings of celebrities and members of the public guessing words based on one-word clues – a precursor to The $10,000 Pyramid. After leaving Goodson and Todman's production company, he set up Bob Stewart Productions and made more than 20 game shows over a quarter of a century. They included Eye Guess (1966-69, with contestants trying to remember the locations on a nine-space board of answers to subsequent questions), Personality (1967-69, featuring celebrities guessing how fellow stars answered pre-recorded questions) and Winning Streak (1974-75, another word-association game).

Stewart showed that he had both business acumen and a hold on audience tastes by updating the formats of some of his programmes, including Jackpot! (1974-90, offering money and cash prizes of up to $50,000 for contestants answering riddles) and Chain Reaction (1980-91, another word game), which was recently revived by a different US production company (2006-07). Until 2006, Stewart held the record for the most Daytime Emmy Awards won by any producer – nine. Three years later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Stewart retired in 1991, a year after the death of his wife, Sara. His subsequent long-term partner, Anne Marie Schmitt – who produced some of his programmes – died in 2006. Stewart's son, Sande, has also produced television game shows.

Isidore Steinberg (Bob Stewart), television producer and game-show deviser: born New York 27 August 1920; married 1943 Sara Abramowitz (died 1990; three sons); died Los Angeles 4 May 2012. More about: Game Show Memories – The Price Is Right. | ADAM'S NOSTALGIC MEMORIES Game Show Memories – The Price Is Right. The Price Is Right (ITV, 1984-1988, 1995-2001, 2006-2007) This is the lively game show that offered big prizes. The Price Is Right is something of an institution in America where it has run for decades, but when the format finally came to the UK in 1984 it caused something of a sensation as the games were presented in a style that hadn’t ever really been seen before in this country. The original host in the 80s was Leslie Crowther, but my favourite era of the show that I remember most was when Bruce Forsyth took over by which point restrictions on the value of prizes had been relaxed.

He always liked to welcome the stars of the show, whoever they were… Every week contestants were picked from the somewhat lively studio audience at random to “come on down” and play for prizes. First of all they were shown an item and had to guess the price of it. The contestant whose guess was the closest to the actual price without going over won the chance to play the game, and they also won that prize. Again in the various games the contestant had to complete a task to win some more prizes. The most famous games included Plinko, where the contestant had to win coins which they then dropped into a machine and their prize was determined by wherever the coin landed. There was also the unforgettable Cliff Hanger which even thinking about it now horrifies me. After the end of the game, Bruce would say “there’s a space in contestants’ row”, so another contestant would come on down to play, and this would be done three times. Regardless of whether they had won the prize in their game or not, the three contestants then went into the Showcase Showdown. They have to spin a wheel featuring numbers from 5 to 100.

The contestant who scores the nearest to 100 without going over in a combination of one or two spins plays for the Showcase in the final. If they score exactly 100 they win a bonus, didn’t they do well! In the final the one remaining contestant is shown the Showcase, which features various luxury holidays, cars and other great things. First of all they use the rangefinder, which indicates how much under they can be when guessing the value of the Showcase. If their guess is within the range without going over when the value is revealed, they win everything in the Showcase along with all the prizes that they have already won, and needless to say this makes everyone very pleased. When The Price Is Right launched in the UK the style was very similar to the American version, and the over excited audiences and showing-off of flashy prizes really did cause a stir. After a while though the format settled down and it did become a hit with viewers. The Leslie Crowther era was an hour long and shown on Saturday nights, while the Bruce Forsyth era was half an hour long and shown on various days, and it has also been repeated on Challenge in more recent years.

Between these versions Sky One also showed a short-lived revival in 1989. There was also a board game released of the Crowther and Forsyth versions. In 2006 The Price Is Right was revived by ITV for a second time, this time in a weekday daytime slot and with Joe Pasquale as host. Unfortunately even though big money prizes were the norm on British TV by this point even for a daytime slot, this version wasn’t a big hit with viewers and ended rather quietly, which was disappointing. Share this: The Price Is Right UK 1987 Leslie Crowther - YouTube The Price Is Right UK 1987 Leslie Crowther Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 16, 2010 A typically excitable start to the proceedings! By this stage you get the "glamour models" name-checked at the beginning of the show.

Gilly DeTerville still thinks she's a Page 3 girl and gives the camera an ultra sleazy wink. Poor Denise Kelly looks like she's about to pass wind. The length of Contestants Row seems to have shortened and curved since the first two series. And for the first time we get a Guernsey contingent! By the way, who's the very smarmy Continuity Announcer at the start, and how did he know I was looking so good?? Category Blockbusters and the other 80s TV shows making a timely comeback - Mirror Online Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email IF you switch on the telly these days, you could be forgiven for thinking your couch has turned into Doctor Who's Tardis and whisked you back to the 80s. It was a more innocent time, when the mullet-wearing TV host reigned, shell suits were all the rage and pop stars had bad teeth. Today marks the relaunch of the king of the 1980s quiz shows - Blockbusters - after 11 years away. Radio 2's Simon Mayo is set to replace question master Bob Holness, who died in January.

The mundane top prize of a sweatshirt and dictionaries will be replaced by e-readers, plasma TVs and holidays. And the contest will be open to everyone, not just students. But Blockbusters is not the only 80s favourite making a timely comeback... Say what you see: Roy Walker was in charge of picture-led game show CATCHPHRASE THE picture-led game show presented by Roy Walker ran on Saturday evenings on ITV between 1986 and 2002. Contestants tried to decrypt pictures to form a catchphrase and later hosts included Nick Weir and Mark Curry. Production firm DRG recently secured rights for the show from its US owners and it is in talks with UK broadcasters for a new format, which is due to be launched early next year. Higher or lower: Brucie was in charge of the cards on Play Your Cards Right (Photo: ITV) PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT IT was one of Sir Bruce Forsyth's finest moments - couples were invited to guess whether a card's value would be higher or lower than the original. Forsyth was livid when the show was axed in 2003, after more than 15 years.

It looked certain to make a comeback last October until regulators raised fears that it could be seen as endorsing gambling. The Gambling Commission looks set to deliver its verdict soon. Bully's special prize: Jim Bowen's stint as presenter earned his legendary status BULLSEYE DARTS game show Bullseye and its legendary presenter Jim Bowen, 74, deserve their place in the retro hall of fame. Known for its catchphrase "You can't beat a bit of Bully", show creator Andrew Wood was thought to be in talks with Five to resurrect it, with Justin Lee Collins favourite to host. But he should be careful not to step on Jim's toes. The veteran host has said: "If asked to come back, I'd consider it." Knightmare's not over: 3D childrens fantasy could be making a comeback KNIGHTMARE KNIGHTMARE ran from 1987 until the early 90s and had an audience of five million, mainly children. It saw a team of youngsters aged 11 to 16 guide another child through the 3D Knightmare Castle - with the main contestants unable to see obstacles and dangers.

The show had stunning visuals for its time and was so hard that only eight teams ever finished it. Original series producer Tim Child has promised fans "something to talk about" very soon. Our survey said: Talks are underway for an eighth series BOB Monkhouse was the first host of Family Fortunes, which ran from 1980 until 2002. Its catchphrase was "Our survey said", but it was known for its wrong answer sound. It was hosted by Les Dennis until it was revamped as the celebrity-based All Star Family Fortunes, with Vernon Kay presenting. The finale of the seventh series is on at the same times as Blockbusters, but talks are under way for another. Friends reunited: Cilla got families back together for 13 years SURPRISE, SURPRISE CILLA Black reunited families on Surprise, Surprise for 13 years - from 1984 right through to 1997. This Morning host Holly Willoughby has been lined up to present a special episode later this year, while plans are under way for a relaunch in 2013.

Should it return to our screens, the show will retain the same format - and Cilla is expected to make a cameo appearance. Cheap and cheerful: £5k was up for grabs on Brucie's spin of the wheel THE PRICE IS RIGHT A CHEAP and cheerful quiz hosted by 80s greats including Leslie Crowther, Sir Bruce Forsyth and, er, Joe Pasquale. It had contestants vying to play on the big wheel for up to £5,000 - big money back then. Vernon Kay hosted a version of the show in 2007 and ITV producers have been in talks with production companies about a revamp - but nothing is on the horizon just yet. Who lives in a house like this: Plans are afoot to rescreen the programme THROUGH THE KEYHOLE THE show had David Frost and Loyd Grossman take contestants on a video tour of a famous guest or celebrity's property. A spoof saw comedian Peter Cook impersonating Loyd and looking around the host's home. Now Fremantle, the same firm behind the revival of Blockbusters, has bought the rights to rescreen the programme. And its plans to bring it back for good are still very much in the pipeline.

Pop favourite: Even music from the likes of Rick Astley is back in vogue again (Photo: Mirrorpix) LIKE it or loathe it, music from the 1980s is back with a bang. Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Pepsi & Shirlie, and Sinitta performed at a Pete Waterman gig this year. The Rewind Festival, in Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, has also sold out with The Bangles, T'Pau and Rick Astley all on the bill. It's not just music, it's sweets, too. The Wham bar, of which 30 million were sold a year, returns this summer, courtesy of the same firm that brought back Refreshers, Sherbet Dip Dabs and Sherbet Fountains. Clothes shows have also been crammed with 80s fashion - Milan Fashion Week featured metal studs, leather leggings, sequins, power shoulders and flashes of neon. It's on TV, too, with the Dulux dog and Milkybar kid tapping into our nostalgia. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Most Read Most Recent

Question: Which TV Game Show has been presented by Leslie Crowther, Bruce Forsyth and Joe Pasquale?
Answer: 'THE PRICE IS RIGHT'